Opening Prayer Lord, open our ears and let us hear Your Word. Amen. Text: Isaiah 29:17-19 Is it not yet a very little while till Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest? In that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and…
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When someone says, “I’m transgender,” are you prepared to respond? The Bible clearly teaches that God created “male and female.” (Gen 1:27) Yet, there may be other places to start the conversation. First, consider that “I’m transgender” tries to describe a person’s being by partly answering the question “What am I?” The person may also…
Opening Prayer Lord, let my thoughts, words, and deeds, be pleasing to You. Amen. Text: Matthew 12:33-37 “Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit. Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things?…
Opening Thought Know that Jesus Christ is our God and that there is no other Savior! Text: Matthew 15:29-31 And Jesus departed from there, skirted the Sea of Galilee, and went up on the mountain and sat down there. Then great multitudes came to Him, having with them those who were lame, blind, mute, maimed,…
Opening Prayer “Glorious Lord, Thyself impart, Light of light, from God proceeding!” (ELH 1:3) Text: Second Corinthians 3:4-9 And we have such trust through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, who also made us sufficient as ministers…
Opening Prayer Let my lips proclaim the praise of Your mouth. Amen. Text: Mark 7:31-37 And again, departing from the region of Tyre and Sidon, He came through the midst of the region of Decapolis to the Sea of Galilee. Then they brought to Him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his…
Text: Psalm 119:169-176 Let my cry come before You, O Lord; Give me understanding according to Your word. Let my supplication come before You; Deliver me according to Your word. My lips shall utter praise, For You teach me Your statutes. My tongue shall speak of Your word, For all Your commandments are righteousness. Let…
Text: Psalm 32:1-5 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, Whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no guile. When I kept silent, my bones grew old Through my groaning all the day long. For day and night Your hand…
Opening Prayer Lord, speak to our hearts about the greatness of Your grace. Amen. Text: Romans 5:12-16 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned – For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed…